Kimi Räikkönen's big WRC-adventure starts next week when the 30-year old Finnish drivers pays a visit to Citroen's factory in France. Making the seat and the first trial with the Citroen C4 -shuttle built for Räikkönen is in the program.

Räikkönen and Kaj Lindström will drive their first rally with Citroen on January 28-30th in Rovaniemi when the duo participates as outsiders to the Arctic Lapland -rally. WRC-rally starts two weeks later in Sweden.

The motorsportworld has already been wondering over how Räikkönen can go to a completely unfamiliar WRC-serie with so little experience. The truth is that Kimi himself is the least worried about it.

Räikkönen doesn't belong to those drivers who need to sit for five days in the car just so that they get to know it. As a fullblooded professional he takes the bull by it's horns immediately and goes to check out how far his own pace takes him.

Those who know Räikkönen better praises him telling he is now more relaxed than he has ever been during his whole F1-career. Kimi is practically bursting with enthusiasm now that he gets to go driving again.

First he checks out his own pace

Red Bull owns a F1-team but on the rally-side they are just Citroen's close partner. Citroen runs racing teams. Red Bull pays Kimi's salary just like Red Bull pays Sebastian Vettel's and Mark Webber's salaries in F1.

Red Bull's magazine went to see Kimi Räikkönen some time ago at his home in Switzerland. Kimi was as usual very straightforward when talking about his expectations.

Turun Sanomat